by Caroline | Aug 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Interview with Meta https://iammeta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Brave-face.mp3 For the past few months, my mother has been staying with me while we worked on the book about her childhood in the Netherlands during WWII, Brave Face. This week I’m staying wth...
by Caroline | Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Let’s face it. Pandemics are scary, inconvenient, boring, dangerous, annoying, expensive, and just plain awful. In comparison to most people, I’m coming out relatively unscathed—so far. My brother and his large family all had COVID, but all have recovered. My son has...
by Caroline | Aug 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Those of you who follow this page will have noticed that it hasn’t been updated for a while. It’s not because nothing has been happening. Rather, we’ve been working hard at a rather radical revision. The content is the same; the telling is not. Even the title has been...
by Caroline | May 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Have you noticed that things have become quiet on this Blog? It’s not because we aren’t working on the book. It’s because we are. Writing a book with the goal of attracting a professional publisher is not the same as writing a letter or a scientific paper, neither of...
by Caroline | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
During the Hunger Winter at the end of WWII, Dutch families in the Hague and nearby experienced extreme hunger and all that goes with that: dysentery, tuberculosis, and starvation sickness. Many people died. The streets were empty; cleaning supplies were unavailable;...
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